In the pioneer days of the ‘Net, you could visit anonymous
chat rooms on AOL.

That was never my thing…because it quickly dawned on me back
then that I had no idea who was really who. The person claiming to be a 24-year
old female could indeed be a creepy old guy sitting in front of his computer in
his dingy whites.

Sorry for that visual…but you get my drift!

Blocking out that mental picture, I decided to give TypeHi a
shot.

The interface was clean and self-explanatory.

I then quickly received a prompt that I was being connected
with another user.

So far…so good.

My first conversation was relatively pleasant. The other
party acknowledged that they too were checking out the site for the first time.

I told this person that I was curious about seeing if any
data was filtered.

They agreed to help me test, so we sent a few mock phone
numbers back and forth.